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'Who are we, really, and what might we one day become?
The seemingly endless war between humans and their robot creations is at a crossroads.
A successful military commander, Michael Shaw, changes the stakes for both sides and the bitter conflict enters a new phase. But Michael compromises his career by taking in a Rob ′child′ who bears an uncanny resemblance to his lost daughter, Ellen.
Inevitably, the child grows up, and the woman he calls his daughter reverts to her robotic origins. Michael is left with a terrible choice, a choice which leads father to track daughter through a war-torn land, and to question everything he has believed about himself and his world'. Source: publisher's website.
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Epigraph: Man is something that is to be surpassed. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra.
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Epigraph: Mankind and the so-called smart machine - the Rob - were seen as occupying separate spheres. They were 'other', and to mix or merge them was to pervert the nature of both. Our human future lay in being what we were, that and nothing else. For us, or so it was decreed, purity was the only way. - Michael Shaw, The Rob Wars.
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Untitled
2002
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review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 10 no. 3 2002; (p. 45)
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Man Against Machine
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 January 2002; (p. 21)
— Review of The Other 2001 single work novel -
An Australian at war
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 12 January 2002; (p. 7)
— Review of The Other 2001 single work novel
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An Australian at war
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 12 January 2002; (p. 7)
— Review of The Other 2001 single work novel -
Man Against Machine
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 January 2002; (p. 21)
— Review of The Other 2001 single work novel -
Untitled
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 10 no. 3 2002; (p. 45)
— Review of The Other 2001 single work novel
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